David T. Fortin

Architecture and Science-Fiction Film

Philip K. Dick and the Spectacle of Home

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Produktbeschreibung

The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while similarities and crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated throughout the past century, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'.

Produktdetails

• Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 179mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781409407485
• ISBN-10: 1409407489
• Artikelnr.: 42354380

Autorenporträt

Dr David T. Fortin is an Assistant Professor at Montana State University School of Architecture, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Part 1 Science-Fiction, Architecture and Home: Defining science-fiction: Darko Suvin and the genre
The future and home
Postfuturism and shifting notions of home
Learning from Dick: architectural perspectives on SF. Part 2 Re-Visioning Home in Dick-Inspired Films: Killing home: Blade Runner's strange obsessions and omissions
Relinquishing home: identity through architectural 'otherness'
Resurrecting home: scattered boundaries and domesti-city in Minority Report
Becoming home: identities, insects, and the dirty dwelling dilemma. Part 3 Go Home - I'm Home - Becoming Home: Architecture and grammar in SF
Bibliography
Index.